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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> Aloha,
>
> > *Microsoft is putting a key web technology at the heart of its most 
> > popular programs.*
> >
> > By late 2006 all the files created by users of its Office suite of 
> > software will be formatted with web-centred XML specifications.
>
>
> Ah yes, lagging behind the open source community (OpenOffice 
> specifically) by a good handful of years, as usual...
>
> Anyone want to start a pool on whether they'll create proprietary 
> "extensions" to the international XML 'standard', just to jerk 
> everyone around as usual?
>
> Go ahead, call me cynical... ;-)
>
> John S.


I think you'e right on target about that. They'll think of some way to 
"tweak" the standards enough to make things difficult.
Anyway, reading this article after the ones I posted earlier about the 
steel industry adopting XML for secure data sharing among
participating websites gave me a clearer view of what XML is all about.

I will want to use XML coding to redo my own commercial website which I 
will use to promote my market farm's produce  and gardening hand tools I 
will make in my shop.
It will contain lots of photos and product information plus many links 
and references to other North Carolina businesses.  I plan to move to 
Register.com for webhosting
as they offer a great del and run unix.

Can you recommend a good book on XML? I hand code using a good text 
editor like Textpad, Uedit or Notetab. Maybe I will need an XML editor.

Thanks for any feedback.

LL